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Excerpts from Ilya Etingof's message of 2018-05-10 15:48:34 +0200:
> On 05/10/2018 03:01 PM, Julia Kreger wrote:
> > On Mon, May 7, 2018 at 4:34 PM, Doug Hellmann <doug at doughellmann.com> wrote:
> > 
> >> As a consumer of team updates from outside of the team, I do find
> >> them valuable.
> > 
> > Ditto, if I have time to read them.
> > 
> > 
> >> I think having a regular email update like that is a good communication
> >> pattern we've started to establish with several teams, and I'm going
> >> to ask the TC to help find ways to make those updates more visible
> >> for folks who want to stay informed but can't spend the time it
> >> takes to read all of the messages on the mailing list (blogs, RSS,
> >> twitter, etc.).
> >>
> >> So, I hope the Ironic team can find a volunteer (or several to share
> >> the work?) to step in and continue with summaries in some form.
> >>
> > 
> > I suspect finding a replacement is going to be a little hard for anything that
> > is more than a ten to fifteen minute commitment per week. Perhaps if there was
> > some sort of unified way that might make things easier and we could then
> > all coalesce in terms of update format, amount of pertinent information
> > versus noise.
> 
> The status updates we used to have [1] were essentially weekly snapshots
> of the Ironic Whiteboard [2]. That probably explains why they are 1)
> somewhat large/noisy and 2) changing only partially. My mental diff
> capabilities now risk declining. ;-)
> 
> While we still have the whiteboard [2], does it make sense to duplicate
> it in e-mail [1]?
> 
> Would it work better if we'd:
> 
> * Report just progress/changes in the e-mail, not the whole whiteboard
> (which is still one click away)
> 
> and/or
> 
> * Report essential discussions/resolutions occurred at the weekly IRC
> meeting
> 
> WDYT?

Both of those things seem like they would be valuable. If we view these
summaries as a way to help people find and understand the important
discussions, actually writing them should become a bit easier.

Doug

> 
> I can probably do something about those status reports if people find
> them useful in one form or the other.
> 
> 
> 1. http://lists.openstack.org/pipermail/openstack-dev/2018-May/130257.html
> 2. https://etherpad.openstack.org/p/IronicWhiteBoard
> 
> > 
> > I'm totally on-board for something easy, I'm also just not sure email has
> > the same impact as it once did. Anyway, things to discuss in the hallway track
> > at the summit. :)
> > 
>